Do not fear mistakes.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.